Aavenir Leadership Team

At Aavenir, we are committed to developing a culture of leadership & innovation, every minute. We foster innovation across all levels in our organization.

Jesal Mehta

Founder & CEO

Meet Jesal, a thorough innovation-lover with more than 25 years of industry experience in conceptualizing and delivering ground-breaking enterprise solutions for enhancing performance of the number of organizations in the world. After playing a decisive role in building teams that actually defined and demonstrated ‘performance-driven-results’ across the globe, like at Apttus & Revitas (now Model N), Jesal set out for his entrepreneurial pursuit with Aavenir. His leadership qualities have boosted operations of different functions like product management, engineering, sales & marketing, and professional services, primarily related to Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) domains.

Jesal believes that future of work is going to be defined by technologies like AI, ML and Blockchain – and that prospective change is encouraging him to get deeply involved with them. As an MBA from Santa Clara University, USA with an expertise in driving exponential product growth, Jesal strives to convert innovative technologies into thriving business.

Kamal Ahluwalia

Advisor

Say hi to Kamal, a strategist with fresh ideas and a strong foundation of go-to-market. Currently, he enjoys his work as a President at eightfold.ai. His ideas have found an intellectual platform as he co-authored a book entitled “What’s Next for You – The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”. After graduating from IIT Roorkee, India, Kamal went to Utah State University, USA for pursuing his Masters in Computer Science.

Kamal has created new buying categories and scaled businesses exponentially. Additionally, his customer assurance and partner success brings holistic business success for many firms. Kamal, a domain expert in Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Quote-to-Cash (Q2C), was a Chief Revenue Officer at Apttus and successfully led the company to market leadership in multiple product categories ahead of Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, IBM, and others.

Gaurav Desai

Advisor

And that’s Gaurav – person who knows his ways with technology inside out and specializes in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Internet of Things (IoT) and Network Infrastructure. After guiding a team that resolved infrastructure fault management challenges using novel Machine Learning (ML) techniques at Google Infrastructure, currently, Gaurav heads a research team at Google AI focusing on Natural Language Understanding. In fact, his 20 years’ journey of being a dynamic technology leader began with Cisco developing embedded systems for multiple networking solutions and then joined Google Infrastructure, where he led the development of network emulation, telemetry, and configuration management services. In between his two successful tenures with Google Infrastructure, he built an energy services team focusing energy savings using connected Thermostats at Nest Labs.

Gaurav has earned his Master’s in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.

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